A fast and silent journey to Belarus marks a turning point in US politics
The old American diplomatic slipped in silence in Belarus, a police state managed by a strong man insulted for decades in the West, traveling by car beyond the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his apparatus KGB security.It was the first meeting of Lukashenko with a high official of the State Department in five years and the beginning of what could be a highly consequential defrosting of frozen relations between the United States and the closest ally of Russia.The American visit under the Radar in Minsk, the capital Belarusian, came on Wednesday just one day after President Trump made a long phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Both events reported Washington's departure from a year of a year of attempt to isolate leaders please in...